[plug] Fwd: MS porting Office to Linux?

Oliver White ojw at iinet.net.au
Sun Mar 14 21:06:29 WST 1999


Apparently O2K will use XML document format, so it should be a breeze to
compete if you can write something better.

Or not.

Gregory RAFTERY wrote:

> Interesting! This was what I was saying last week...how will the majorly
> anti-MS Linux community react if/when the enemy actually embraces our
> budding OS?
>
> I don't doubt the MS developers being Linux freaks. It can only be a good
> thing to have MS talent being interesting in Linux. What would scare me is
> if they develop a MS Linux distro and charge for it and then develop the
> apps to only work using MS Linux.
>
> Greg Raftery
>
> On Fri, 12 Mar 1999, Chris Cornish wrote:
>
> >
> > well What do you guys think ?
> > note: forwarded msg attached.
> >
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